A virus that won't quit and sleepless nights

Maddox first got sick on Friday, October 11th. Liam came down with the same virus on Thursday, October 17th. Here we are one week and one day from the day Liam got sick and Liam is STILL sick. We have been to the doctor. He is having difficulty breathing, so we have an inhaler and pregnizone to contend with. He is doing well taking the inhaler, but is quite resistant to any liquid medicine at this point. I really, really, really just want him to feel better,

Thankfully, Liam has continued sleeping through the night, despite being sick. Maddox did not and it took him a while to recover from waking up at night. Last night, he finally slept through the night again.

In comes Puggie, who did not sleep through the night. I was up with Puggie for over 2 hours. He was restless and in turn being quite loud, and I could not fall back to sleep.

For those who do not know, we vowed that we would never have a dog who slept in our bed. It is just not for us. Puggie was crate trained right from when he came home with us in 2005. Cut to February 2013. Suddenly, Puggie started crying in the middle of the night. And by crying, I mean a high pitched, crazy screaming dog cry. He essentially was saying, "If you do not come and get me, I will make sure I wake up Maddox and Liam." And after about a week of that, we then had a dog who shared our bed with us.

He is a bed hog. He takes up a ridiculous amount of room for a 23 pound dog in a king size bed. He can have restless nights from time to time. Perhaps it is his allergies, perhaps it is just old age.

So to sum things up, Liam is still sick and I have not had a good nights sleep since October 10th. I find myself being very snippy and woe is me when I do not get enough sleep. Please hang in there with me and offer any bit of encouragement that you can. This Mama is tired.